The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
  

  security
  

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• Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
  

  hardware
  

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• The Disconnected Git Workflow
  

  vcs
  

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• Ending 15 years of subprocess polling
  

  python
  

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• Forget technical debt
  

  practices
  

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• Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications
  

  networking
  

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• zig libc
  

  zig
  

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• Vibe: Easy VM sandboxes for LLM agents on MacOS
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• My experience with vibe coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Selfish AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Migrating to GTK3 – Re: Factor
  

  concatenative graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In Praise of –dry-run
  

  programming
  

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• archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
  

  security web
  

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• The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
  

  api
  

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• Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
  

  pdf programming
  

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• This year in LLVM (2025)
  

  compilers
  

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• Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
  

  video debugging hardware
  

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• Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
  

  vcs
  

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• Contracts in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
  

  ml performance
  

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• A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor
  

  ai
  

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• Libreboot 26.01 “Magnanimous Max” released
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• FOSDEM 2026 - Live Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
  

  nix
  

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• The State Of Garnet, 2026
  

  plt
  

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• Some Data Should Be Code
  

  programming
  

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• Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Book of Verse
  

  games plt
  

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• Automatic programming
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• The imminent risk of vibe coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• Subtypes and status-dependent data: pure relational approach
  

  databases
  

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• Outsourcing thinking
  

  philosophy
  

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• Six Simple Sudoku Solvers: Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project
  

  distributed vibecoding
  

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• Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters
  

  security
  

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• 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective
  

  wasm
  

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• Email experiments: filtering out external images
  

  email
  

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• Backseat Software
  

  design
  

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• How AI Impacts Skill Formation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
  

  programming
  

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• Google Disrupts Large Residential Proxy Network
  

  networking security web
  

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• GNU Units
  

  c math
  

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• The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers
  

  linux
  

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• Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
  

  devops distributed release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
  

  c python rust
  

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• UEFIGame: "Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown"
  

  games
  

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• It is incorrect to “normalize” // in HTTP URL paths
  

  web
  

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• Use “\A...\z”, not “^...$” with Python regular expressions
  

  python
  

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• The Rise of Sanityware
  

  web
  

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• Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself
  

  vibecoding
  

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• make.ts
  

  practices
  

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• Places to Telnet
  

  networking
  

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• A "Pure Go" Linux environment, written by Claude
  

  go vibecoding
  

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• MonkeyBall Online
  

  games web
  

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• Barev - XMPP flavoured p2p protocol
  

  distributed linux networking privacy
  

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